''Stenocara dentata'', the long-legged darkling beetle, is an insect of

darkling beetle Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution. Taxonomy ''Tenebrio'' is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles ...

family found in southern Africa. The beetle stands in a head down posture on sand dunes to catch the morning mist which collects in drops on its body and slides into its mouth. It is large enough to crawl out of the trap of the plant, ''

Hydnora africana ''Hydnora africana'' is an Myco-heterotrophy, achlorophyllous plant in the subfamily Hydnoroideae, native to southern Africa that is parasite, parasitic on the roots of members of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is also called jakkalskos or jackal ...

'', unlike smaller beetles which remain trapped for several days.POLLINATION BIOLOGY OF HYDNORA AFRICANA THUNB. (HYDNORACEAE) IN NAMIBIA: BROOD-SITE MIMICRY WITH INSECT IMPRISONMENT
Jay F. Bolin,* Erika Maass, and Lytton J. Musselman, Old Dominion University, U.S.A. and University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia; ''Int. J. Plant Sci.'' 170(2):157–163. 2009.

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Pimeliinae Beetles of Africa Beetles described in 1799 {{Tenebrionidae-stub